The Worlds Safest Beach
Erosion Control Forum – Information on erosion control devices and resources Skip to content I n 1967 when I was 12 years young we (my family) moved- from Connecticut to Carpinteria CA aka "The World's Safest Beach"- a small town south of Santa Barbara, Ca. W e lived in Carpinteria as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in the waters off the California: coast: the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time. I saw (an oxymoron?) the vanishing sand peter-out as the beach's pristine beauty was denuded to one of rock and gravel. Later that year the sand mysteriously returned to re-nourish the beach. I n 2008 my family went on a summer outing to The Finger Lakes region in western-central New York . A gain. environmental mayhem has threatened the waterway...